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Morning Daily (Founded ln 1887)

Authorized n Second Class Mali, rest Office Department. Ottawa. '

Prelldell. lln A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R. Burnett; Stay-Tread, G. M. Burnett; Fditor nnrl Manuling Director, .I. R. Burnett; Associate Editor.

Frank Walker. _

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

WEDNESDAY. APRIL l6, 1947

"A Bali ilay’s Work”

Noting the straight party division in the P. E. l. Legislature on the tax agreement bill, the Sydney Post-Record says:

"Ju~t before the vote was taken a Pro- gressive Conservative amendment, which should have received the unanimous approval of the House if the members had been on their toes for the preservation of the Pro-Alice's rights, was rejected after the Speaker, backed by some of the Ministers, had vainly tried to rule it out so as to prevent the awkward show-down which ensued. This Opposition resolution simply oa- serted that the agreement with the Dominion should contain a clause declaring that its ac- ceptance and execution did not involve any sur- rcrder of Prince Edward Island's rights to com- pensation for the Dominion’: failure to imple- ment the terms of Confederation, or of its rights under the reports of the Duncan and White Commissions. This very sensible and prudential step to safeguard the future rights of the ls- land was rejected by the Jones Government and its supporters in the House, who voted to a man against it. It is easy to see how this ill-con- sidered vote may prejudice the lsland Prov- ince greatly in the years that lie immediately ahead. For it is impossible to construe logically the majority vote on this issue otherwise than as an admission that the agreement just ap- proved by the House wipes out the last vestige ot the Island's claims for redress for Ottawa's default in carrying out certain of the terms of Confederation, as well as every hope of future benefit on the port of the Province from the Duncan and White recommendations. It was a bad day's work for Prince Edward lsland when the Legislature was so short-sighted as to vote deliberately to make this tax agreement a bar to all future claims against the Federal author-

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A Fisherman's Yarn

rr Is appropriate enough at this early sea- son to recall one of Kipling's experiences with the fishing rod. in the course of which he cast fly in the Yellow- stone River in the National Park—would that ‘our National Park possessed such an asset. His host was the caretaker, known as Yankee Jim. He was a picturesque old man, says Kipling, with a talent for yarns that Annanias might have envied. It seemed to Kipling, presumpti- ous in his ignorance, that he might hold his own with the old-timer if he judiciously painted up a few lies gathered in the course of his wander- ings. Yankee Jim saw every one of his tales and went fifty better on the spot. "In one point,” declares the author, "he did speak the truth—-as regarded the merits of that particu- Iar reach of the Yellowstone. He said it was nlive with trout. It was. I fished it from noon till twilight, and the fish bit at brown hook as though never a fat trout-fly had fallen on the water. From pebbly reaches, quivering in the heat-haze where the foot caught on stumps cut four-square by the chisel-tooth of the beaver; past the fringe of the water-willow crowded with the breeding trout-fly and alive with toads and water-snakes; over the drifted timber to grateful shadow of the big trees that darkened the holes where the fattest fish lay, l worked for seven hours. The mountain flanks on either side of the valley gave back the heat as the desert gives it, and the dry sand by the railway track, where I found a rattlesnake, was hot-iron to the touch. B_ut the trout did not core for the heat. They breasted the boiling river for mv fly and they got it. I simply dare not give m bag. At tit-e fortieth trout I gave up counting, and I had reached the fortieth in less than two hours. They were small fish-not one over two po:|nds,—but they fought like small tigers, and l lost three flics before I could understand their methods of escape. Yc gods! That was fishing, thcugh it peeled the skin from my nos-e ill strips."

Still Fits Iillllld

_ The Winnipeg Free Press recalls that ,lt is '|ust a hundred years since Ralph Waldo Emer- son made his first pilgrimage to England. His words then could be uttered with o startling timeliness today.

Emerson's first statement on on English plat- form _wos to apologize for eating its food "in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggery." He complained that

in the industrial Midlands "the night and day“ f are too nearly of o color", that "the fine soot or

block darkens the day, give white sheep the color of black sheep, discolor the human saliva, contuminte the air, poison many plants and cor- rode the monum-ents and buildings.“

Emerson knew England for "a cold, foggy and mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air, but robust men and virtuous wo- men, and these of a wonderful fibre and en- durance, that their best ports were slowly re- vealed; their virtues did not come out until th-ay quarrellod; they did not strike twelve the first time; good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action; that in prosperity they were moody and dampish but in adversity they were England, he said, "sou a little better in a cloudy day, and in storm of battle and ‘ it) rho has u iocrgt vigor and a pulse like

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A century has not changed the weather of the English countryside or the weather of Eng- land's spirit.

- EDITORIAL NOTES p»

I fimplaints are receiv-ed about dogs jump-

ing on pedestrians, and also rushing furiously

at passing cars. Owners should take notice. i i i‘ i

Why should. Edsell worry? Estimates, wholly unofficial, place Ford's fortune at ony- where from $200,000,000 up to $500,000,- 000.

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it Premier Jones had been a City Council employee he would have to retire next year, and Mi. Linkletter wo_uld have been retired seven

years ago.

Lioking ahead to next winter's snowfall, Montreal has decided to purchase 35 new three to four-ton trucks with 35 snowplows of o type that may be attached to the trucks.

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Unless immediate steps are taken to en- courage large-scale planting of trees there will be a world lumber famine within the next few vcors, Viscount Bennett declared at a luncheon recept-on in London last neck. 4

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The City Council has had a sort of wind- fall in contributions from the Federal treasury via the Prcvincial treasury. But welcome os it is, it vill not by any means put the Council's finances on the basis they have a right to be. At present they are the headache of the Coun- CillOfs who take their duties seriously, and all oi the present Council do.

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Rrv. H. R. Pickup told Montreal Presbytery that E00 Canadian war brides who came to Canada had returned to England and nearly 11,000 ;r~e still overseas. Some of them, he de- clared, do not know where their husbands are, some 1f the husbands have written that they dur-‘t want them, and some of the husbands al-

ready lad wives in Canada when they married. fi i 1’ I

Tl-e promoters of the West Point-Buc- touche ferry are determined to go ahead with their scheme provided the necessary finances are forthcoming. They are not enamoured of the suggestion that the proposed ferrv should be replaced by the resumption of Summerside-

Point ilu Chene service. I fi

Mr. Henry A. Wallace, as ex-vice-President ofl the Ur ited States, is not a Communist, but b-e-, longs to that heterogeneous politicaliy-mindedl bocy Lnown by the out-and-out Communists as; "lcllov-travellers." He is actually not of their! numbe‘, but does not mind being one of thel crowd following in their wake, shouting words of encopragement or derision as the case may be. 'lh‘ey were to be found also nearly 2,000 years ago, when the ideologies of Barabbus and Crlrist were at stoke.

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It is reported that the Federal Old Age PEIlSlOII Act to be introduced later will boost the Federal contribution permanently to $10 and possibl/ widen the scope of those eligible for such nensions. The wartime order-in-council providing the $5 Dominion contribution could be rcszinced when the uct was endorsed by Parlia- m-ent. -

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Anatole France, greatest figure in recent French literature, born this date i844; in i876 he turled from poetry to prose, the pure mirror oi con-lemporary French intellect, wit, and urban- ity. tfis philosophy appears to be purely nega- tive and agnos-tic, and taken as a whole his wo-k is the largest contribution to humanist criicism since Voltaire, contributing v-ery large- ly to the present religious, political and social decadence of France which culminated in its capitulation to Hitler. He and his fellow phil-

l oscphers sowed tores of disbelief and scepticism ;

the notion reaped a whirlwind of disillusion and clilaster.

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Fcr the post five years, United Kingdom scientists hove been experimenting with the mass prcduction of fish in o man-mad-e sea in the hope of bringing more food to the empty tables cl Bri ain and the Continent. They ore speed- ing u|- nature's cycle by fertilizing the soo- woer with chemicals. The results have been, drt-nlaic. Some fish are growing at t_wice their naima rate, and sometimes even more quickly.‘ A loci. on the west coast of Scotland has been da-nm-ed off to provide an enclosed experimental area, and the water is fertilized by the continual» odlitii-n of nitrogen and phosphorous, which cause the small sea plants on which fish feed to grow in greater abundance. In the fertilized water, fish reach a marketable size in three yecrs instead of the normal six. Once opera- tions can be extended to a really largo field, it is’ uxpccted‘ that the fish market will be doubled.

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B-lsiness people are bringing pressure to beur upon the Minister of Finance regarding taxatiln. President C. L. Burton told shore- holder: of Simpsons, Limited, at the annual meeting that there are two fields of govern- ment policy in which it is vitally important that nn immediate change to a peacetime basis be mcdentaxation and price control, "which as presently applied are holding back initiative in buz-inels." "Income tax now yields more than 50 per cent of the tax receipts of the Govern- mcnt af Canada," he said. "This form of tax, its apalication and administration must not be allawei to continue to be a retarding influence on the level of notional income. High individual incomo taxes result in higher prices, as they create demands for increased wage rates which bring about higher unit costs. Not only door this mducu our ability to null abroad, but it shrinks tho real income of the wage corner. The general uffoctgis a distortion of the national structure blob IOQIIIUII full employment."

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN _

lotus By the Vinyl

Nu more inapproprfutq fiflug n; speech could have been employed than talk of "handing" the 09m. 11111111515. The seolulsive per-sans mul- 1y either escape a brand entirely orl adopt so many as to confuse the onlookes". - New York Sun.

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A great deal more hflnkneoa would-be desk-able in Rpsstan- American relations. Both countries have been guilty of provooetionafl If they were Milling to base their rvlofions on o mutual recognition of that truth. ti. might. be found lliilb the fears and suspicions prompting their moves and court- tefmoves against each other had men groundless in fact. -_ Detroit Ncvrs.

Hitler ordered thousands of tons of granite from Sweden which was to have gene into the building of a 111x130 monument to him in Berlin, -‘ l‘ wizmilig the war, and now the g1 ti? is being sold all over the world for much more airliner)‘- and pellet-purpose, notes The Niagara Bails Review. The Japanese also were overly-optimistic and so a Jqsanese nmmnlem, celebrating their "great" victory of Hcmk Kong. has been demolished. It is ufloilflff‘ renlindcl- of the lolly of putting up statues to people until you lilitnv wlilCli side, n-hicit individual has won. .

A thought. that. must often come no [10110113 of middle age, and be- iyond that. is the severe nervous ‘strain to which pcople are subject- lccl by conditions as ‘we hove them flociuy. A few generations ago there wvcre hardships. too, but life div-is jless complex then, and the 111E115 iElDIl tribulations (lid not; lLflCCL ll"! lhunilzn physique in- the $111119 Way las they do to-clay. The change I185 _been brought about by u numb»: lot things. Among them are the more rapid 112cc at wl110l1 BVBIY- tiling is travelling. kcencr compe- ifition- resulting in the survival of ithe fittest. and the influences of ithis highly mechanized age. - Chatham News. "

l Spelling the difference bclwuflfl ‘ltigh Q1- 10w production. the distinct- ,ien between worsted and Woollen lClOlli never has been so lmfiilnflnl- iWVorstA-d" is the tame given a hard- lfi-ilisit cloth l:y William the C011- Iquoror in 1066 when he observed lthe Britons making it. He had 1115i vmrsied the Britons, so Winm-slcnlly- he called the cloth “worsted? Worst-

lnrproved Land Surveying in P.E.l.

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Q vuauc FORUM

This column la open to the dlaeu-luu by corro-

Ifllllfllvre») upoadentu of question: d

interest. The Charlottetown

T" Guardian does not manur-

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“"3"” M “"5 xrrelpondentu. p The field work done tn connec- tion with the Provincial Survey ffivfi5v9lllv

shows 7-10 miles of traverse com- pleted and. M6, monuments plum.- ed. Thll shows the work in the ‘first District of Kings oomlplet- ed. In the Second District of Kings the bulk of the field work has been finished. Considerable work has also been done in the Third and Fifth Districts In Queens County. in the Font Au-

gustus District, the field work ilosl Assoclalmn.

been completed south of the Hills- horoug-h River The whole of the Belfast District has also been done.

The field work for this survey, involves the determination of the‘ true meridian by solar observatlonl nearly every day the sun is visi- ble. Iu taking these observations

mutil to less than one iwaif min- ute. It might be said in passing

through the years the stones might have been disturbed but. a‘ check an the cast and wast line established in the year 1846 shows| the north and so-ilth stones. necessitates n tremendous amount of office work ‘n calculating, ad-' justinig. checking and rechecklng the various courses. The stand-l ard of accuracy aimed at. is to keep the error to a maximum of one‘ foot per mi-Ie. In some cases this has been considerably homered.’ For instance between East Point; light. house and Souris light house,‘ the traverse was 10.91 miles long and the i-iusixlg error wa5 less than a, yard eslch way. l Between Soul-is light house and the Geodetic monument at Fort. Augustus, a distance of 49 miles, the closing error was four yards for the “x" coardinatcs and 3 1-2 for the "y" coordinates Between- geodetic monuments at Fort Augustus and the monu- ment c-n Lock Jones‘ farm near Pownai, the distance Was 18 1-4 miles, and the closing error was "x" 1.06 yard. .1 lld “y" 0.04 yards. From Pownai t0 the monument of Caledonia, a dis- tance of 30 miles, tile error was for the "x" coordinates i-2 yard and for the “y" coordinate. 4 i.-2